''The Last Airbender'' visit Detroit to promote movies debuting this week
Even though he has two movies coming out over the long Independence Day weekend – “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” today, and “The Last Airbender” on Thursday — actor Jackson Rathbone doesn’t feel like he’s in competition with himself.
“There’s a difference in the core audiences,” explained Rathbone, 25, a 2003 alumnus of Traverse City-based Interlochen Center for the Arts. Rathbone and co-star Nicola Peltz (“Deck the Halls”), 15, were at the MGM Grand Hotel in Detroit last Monday to promote “Airbender.”
“With ‘Eclipse,’ I think we’ll get a lot more fans of the series because it gets a lot more action-packed… We get in dive into the back-stories of these characters, including my character Jasper. We get to see this epic battle ensue with the newborn vampire army,” he continued. “With (‘Airbender’), it’s a family film that has a lot of action that everyone will enjoy. It’s the Fourth of July weekend; we’ve got a couple days where people will go to movies. When I was growing up, if two movies came out with all this action on Fourth of July weekend, all I would do is eat barbecue all day and go to movies at night.”
“Eclipse” is, of course, the third installment of Stephenie Meyer’s runaway best-selling “Twilight” series of vampire novels that has become a blockbuster film franchise.
It co-stars Michigan natives Elizabeth Reaser (TV’s “Grey’s Anatomy”) and Taylor Lautner (“Cheaper by the Dozen 2”). Rathbone portrays vampire Jasper Hale.
“Airbender” is a live-action film adaptation of the first season of the successful animated series “Avatar: The Last Airbender.”
The film is helmed by M. Night Shyamalan, who is best known for the 1999 phenomenon “The Sixth Sense.”
Rathbone plays Sokka and Peltz plays Katara, both of whom are brother and sister. The two are waterbenders locked in a war with the Fire Nation, a tribe that is determined to dominate its fellow tribal nations: Air, Water, and Earth. They meet a boy named Aang (Noah Ringer, “Cowboys & Aliens”), who is the Last Airbender, a being who can control all four elements and is prophesied to stop the Fire Nation.
“It is very exciting to be cast as Katara, especially since I fell in love with her from the series. But for M. Night to direct and for me to play Katara is a complete dream come true,” said Peltz. “I was so lucky to work with him because I saw ‘The Sixth Sense’ and that is one of my favorite movies ever. He’s such a great director. Besides, he’s such a great person; he’s a family guy, he really cares about family morals and values, and it really shines in this movie.”
Even though Shyamalan has had a string of duds in recent years – 2004’s “The Village,” 2006’s “Lady in the Water,” and 2008’s “The Happening” – Rathbone and Peltz didn’t feel that they were under any pressure from the director in order for this film to be successful.
“Critically, they may not have performed as well. Everybody’s different. It’s the age-old saying, ‘Please some of the people some of the time, can’t please all the people all the time.’ At the end of the day, art is subjective; it’s not objective,” said Rathbone. “Whenever you create a piece of art you believe in, you always hope it’s gonna do well, but you never really expect it to blow away the world and be something that’ll affect everyone ... But if you just believe in it and you love it, other people’ll love it.”
“There’s a difference in the core audiences,” explained Rathbone, 25, a 2003 alumnus of Traverse City-based Interlochen Center for the Arts. Rathbone and co-star Nicola Peltz (“Deck the Halls”), 15, were at the MGM Grand Hotel in Detroit last Monday to promote “Airbender.”
“With ‘Eclipse,’ I think we’ll get a lot more fans of the series because it gets a lot more action-packed… We get in dive into the back-stories of these characters, including my character Jasper. We get to see this epic battle ensue with the newborn vampire army,” he continued. “With (‘Airbender’), it’s a family film that has a lot of action that everyone will enjoy. It’s the Fourth of July weekend; we’ve got a couple days where people will go to movies. When I was growing up, if two movies came out with all this action on Fourth of July weekend, all I would do is eat barbecue all day and go to movies at night.”
“Eclipse” is, of course, the third installment of Stephenie Meyer’s runaway best-selling “Twilight” series of vampire novels that has become a blockbuster film franchise.
It co-stars Michigan natives Elizabeth Reaser (TV’s “Grey’s Anatomy”) and Taylor Lautner (“Cheaper by the Dozen 2”). Rathbone portrays vampire Jasper Hale.
“Airbender” is a live-action film adaptation of the first season of the successful animated series “Avatar: The Last Airbender.”
The film is helmed by M. Night Shyamalan, who is best known for the 1999 phenomenon “The Sixth Sense.”
Rathbone plays Sokka and Peltz plays Katara, both of whom are brother and sister. The two are waterbenders locked in a war with the Fire Nation, a tribe that is determined to dominate its fellow tribal nations: Air, Water, and Earth. They meet a boy named Aang (Noah Ringer, “Cowboys & Aliens”), who is the Last Airbender, a being who can control all four elements and is prophesied to stop the Fire Nation.
“It is very exciting to be cast as Katara, especially since I fell in love with her from the series. But for M. Night to direct and for me to play Katara is a complete dream come true,” said Peltz. “I was so lucky to work with him because I saw ‘The Sixth Sense’ and that is one of my favorite movies ever. He’s such a great director. Besides, he’s such a great person; he’s a family guy, he really cares about family morals and values, and it really shines in this movie.”
Even though Shyamalan has had a string of duds in recent years – 2004’s “The Village,” 2006’s “Lady in the Water,” and 2008’s “The Happening” – Rathbone and Peltz didn’t feel that they were under any pressure from the director in order for this film to be successful.
“Critically, they may not have performed as well. Everybody’s different. It’s the age-old saying, ‘Please some of the people some of the time, can’t please all the people all the time.’ At the end of the day, art is subjective; it’s not objective,” said Rathbone. “Whenever you create a piece of art you believe in, you always hope it’s gonna do well, but you never really expect it to blow away the world and be something that’ll affect everyone ... But if you just believe in it and you love it, other people’ll love it.”
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